What is the scientific name for cedar?
Q: What is the scientific name for cedar?
A: The scientific name for cedar is Cedrus.
Q: Where are cedars native to?
A: Cedars are native to the mountains of the western Himalaya and the Mediterranean region.
Q: How tall can cedars grow?
A: Cedars can grow up to 30-40 metres (98-131 ft) tall, occasionally reaching 60 metres (200 ft).
Q: What do cedar leaves look like?
A: Cedar leaves are evergreen and needle-like, 8–60 mm long, arranged in an open spiral on long shoots, and in dense spiral clusters of 15–45 together on short shoots. They vary from bright grass-green to dark green to strongly glaucous pale blue-green depending on the thickness of the white wax layer which protects them from drying out.
Q: What do female seed cones look like?
A: Female seed cones are barrel-shaped, 6–12 cm long and 3–8 cm broad, green at first then maturing grey-brown. When mature they disintegrate to release winged seeds.
Q: What do male pollen cones look like?
A: Male pollen cones are slender, egg-shaped, 3–8 cm long and produced in late summer shedding pollen in autumn.
Q: How long does it take for a cone to mature?
A: It takes one year for a cone to mature with pollination occurring in autumn and the seeds maturing one year later.
